Programming: The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire
An inspiring story about a vegetable vendor, explaining programming and experiencing how programming doesn't come naturally... As the college season... more »
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Delta3D Open Source Game Engine 2.1.0 Released!
Thierry.Lefort 
via sourceforge.net
A well-supported open source project, Delta3D is a full-function game engine appropriate for a wide variety of modeling & simulation applications... more »
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Android Photostream
Thierry.Lefort via android-developers.blogspot.com
I'm pleased to announce that a new open source sample application—called Photostream—has been added to the apps-for-android project. Photostream is a... more »
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Code Reuse in Google Chrome Browser
pkrumins via catonmat.net
Google Chrome browser shows an excellent example of code reuse. I found that they use at least 25 different software libraries! Here is the full list... more »
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Applet accelerating Java update M.I.A.
Sun Microsystems planned to push out a significant update to Java today, but a last-minute snag has made its date of arrival uncertain.
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On The Need of OSGi-compatible JSR API Class Libraries
Although JSR APIs are generally simple to use, they introduce a lot of difficulties when used from OSGi Environments. The main two problems they... more »
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Spring 2.5 books from Apress
meeras via meera-subbarao.blogspot.com
Apress has released three very interesting titles on Spring 2.5. Take a look:
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Who are the Open Source Content Management System (CMS) market leaders in 2008?
Thierry.Lefort via mytestbox.com
If we are not web experts, we usually just use software tools to develop websites. We may not even know what it is that powers the websites—what is... more »
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Easy way to improve your image gallery using jQuery
Let's say you are browsing a CSS gallery and you want to check out some new and beautiful website designs. And you are of course interested in some... more »
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Scrum Cheat Sheet
The Scrum Cheat Sheet gives a quick reference to - the Roles: Product Owner, Scrum Master and Team, - the Artefacts: Sprint/Product Backlog and... more »
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How is VB.NET Doing?
I recently touched base with someone from the good old VB6 days. They were good old days, but I’m not going to talk about them. He asked where VB.NET... more »
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Starting With jQuery - Validation Plug-in
This series of posts on using jQuery with no prior knowledge comes to its third iteration. Today's post focuses on an introduction to the Validation... more »
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Rails plugin for 99translations updated.
99translations Ruby on Rails integration plugin is updated to support Rails 2.2 i18n.
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Python Generic functions vs mixins: a case study
bloid via artima.com
Just yesterday at work I had a good real-life use case for generic functions which deserved a blog post.
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Simple Linq Sudoku Solver
Thierry.Lefort via codeproject.com
A simple solution to resolve a Sudoku Grid, using Linq.
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Create a Java applet to download information in remote Web services
Start with a Java applet and build a server-based proxy system that uses your browser to access an arbitrary Web service. You'll use JavaScript code... more »
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Making Rails 12x faster with NeverBlock
What if you suddenly had the ability to serve mutliple concurrent requests in a single Rails instance? What if you had the ability to multiplex IO... more »
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Build an Unsupported Browser Warning with jQuery
bloid via think2loud.com
Over at CSS-tricks there’s an article about blocking Internet Explorer 6. The IE 6 Blocker Script is a very nice idea and that’s what I will probably... more »
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Flash say's screw you Silverlight.. Sort of.
Yesterday Adobe and the NFL teamed up and announced that Adobe® Flash® will be used to deliver live online video streaming of NBC Sunday Night... more »
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Sun Launches VirtualBox 2.0
Today Sun announces the next stage in enterprise virtualization--xVM VirtualBox 2.0 and xVM VirtualBox Enterprise Subscriptions with 24/7 global... more »
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Google Chrome browser - my 2 cents on the new Überbrowser
raindoll via reinholdweber.com
opera ripoff features, porn mode, memory hog?, 78/100 acid3 test, excellent V8 engine
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10 Fonts to design original logos
Are you a designer looking for nice fonts to design high quality logos? Take a look at these 10 free fonts you might use to design impressive logos... more »
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MySQL founder Michael Widenius quits Sun
The main author and co-founder has given his resignation today ...
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Google Chrome: Firefox, Chrome already fighting over who's faster
Thierry.Lefort via valleywag.com
The real browser war isn't between Microsoft and anyone. It's between Firefox and Google Chrome, jostling to become the aftermarket browser of choice.... more »
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Question: How to bind SOAP <-> ORM JPA ?
bloid via java.dzone.com
How to copy the values between the SOAP Message elements and the JPA entities? Options I am considering right now:
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